Name: US election: How will protests against a 'stolen election' affect America? - BBC Newsnight
Uploaded: 2020-11-10T18:31:36.000Z
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If the president does not accept defeat, why would his supporters They're trying to suppress us.

Joe Biden is the president elect, but in Arizona, the votes are still being counted on.

The longer it goes on, the more some suspect foul play somewhere.

Ballots are being found on the streets, balance of being submitted for people who have been dead.

Accusations of widespread and systematic fraud are sweeping across social media.

No credible evidence has yet being presented to support such claims, but they're coming from the president himself on for many outside the Maricopa County Vote Tabulation Center, that is proof enough in that one county in Michigan, 6000 votes were changed to Biden that were voted for Trump.

So I thought that that wasn't true until well, that's because you're fucking full of shit on bombing.

Turn our country into a shit hole like yours.

All right, how can we can't observe The whole foundation of American democracy is that people trust the result.

Whatever the result is, you trust it fair.

Thea edge of the gathering There's a solitary counter protester.

I wanted to come and show my support for President elect Biden.

Other Biden supporters e wanted to show my friends who might be like worried about coming out here is in a mood is mostly friendly.

They don't necessarily signify intent, but their presence does come with implications over their attention.

Some or counter protesters arrive with a more provocative message.

Unfortunately, e announced supremacy E Do It for the past four years have exposed deep chasms in American Society.

E Okay, If he's so racist, how come we got more Hispanic?

Report support In this election last year, the culture war has a times looked in danger of spilling over into actual war way.

What fucking country do you think you're in right now?

Trump's supporters still believe the count, if done fairly, will keep their man in the White House.

Yeah, once upon a time in America, elections were relatively straightforward.

The TV networks would call the race on a few notable exceptions aside, that would be that no longer.

I'm actually under warning right now on Facebook, the Internet has shifted the balance of power.

The narrative of a stolen election is spread online by people like Karen would theories ona state organizer of something called Stop the Steal.

In the two days after the election, the group amassed more than 300,000 followers before being taken down by Facebook because of threats of violence posted by some members.

They're saying anything is incitement to violence.

One of the claims Karen makes with no evidence is that an error at a machine count in Michigan, which was quickly rectified, was widely replicated.

They actually had some of these machines changing votes from Trump to Biden.

Where you where does this information come from?

I'm getting it from a lot of the people in the White House that they have posted that this this is What's happening?

When you see something posted from the White House from Donald Trump on downwards.

Do you worry about the tone off public discourse now?

In my opinion, we're very close to a civil war in America.

We will fight to the death to not have socialism.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps your, um, patriotism and your sense of what is right and wrong is being used in a way by somebody who maybe knows that they've lost in election is using you Buy telling falsehoods?

But when Donald Trump says I won this election by a lot, he's lying to you, right?

I think he knows a lot more than we know.

So far, few senior figures in the Republican Party have spoken out publicly against the unfounded allegations emanating from the White House.

One exception is the former senator for Arizona, a snowflake, my hometown it went 99% for Trump.

His opposition to Donald Trump cost him his seat two years ago.

Most of the Republican Party has accepted it.

A lot of them are still playing to that audience of one not knowing where the Trump base will go if the Republican establishment knows that this is bogus, but they're not saying so is not dangerous.

Yeah, it iss, I think it's it's it's terrible for the system.

It's It's not a good thing for democracy, but, um, it will run its course and it will same or about the president than it will about our demise.

I just wonder whether the genie could be put back in the bottle once this tactic has been used in a presidential contest.

He still commands a lot of support and dedication on behalf of the base.

You could see that by how many are still sticking with him.

Uh, you know, Ted Cruz, those guys, they know better, but well, they look at the base that he controls and they don't want to run afoul of that base our way outside the accounting office in Phoenix.

We're going to stay out here until we get an answer from them on.

Then we're gonna go to the capital because other brothers and sisters in America need our support.

Realistically, though, Joe Biden is gonna be the next president, Don't you think way, Just want a fair and honest elections, whether it is Joe Biden, that's great, Aziz.

Long as it's a fair and honest election, the counting is not yet done, but the chances of the result changing is vanishingly small.

 Donald Trump's time in the White House is coming to an end, but the strength of America's faith in its democracy may depend on the manner of his leaving. 